4th Amendment Violating Mobile X-Ray Scanners Hit The Streets
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com As we warned at the beginning of the year, X-ray body scanners currently being used and abused in airports across the world are set to hit the streets as American Science & Engineering reveals that “more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles [...]
Bush’s Search Policy For Travelers Is Kept
Ellen Nakashima | WashingtonPost.com The Obama administration will largely preserve Bush-era procedures allowing the government to search — without suspicion of wrongdoing — the contents of a traveler’s laptop computer, cellphone or other electronic device, although officials said new policies would expand oversight of such inspections. The policy, disclosed Thursday in a pair of Department [...]
The NSA Wiretapping Story That Nobody Wanted
Robert McMillan | PCWorld.com They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. The cliché doesn’t seem far off the mark after reading Mark Klein’s new book, “Wiring up the Big Brother Machine … and Fighting It.” It’s an account of his experiences as the whistleblower who exposed a secret room [...]
Murdoch CEO Labels Bloggers “Political Extremists”
A stinging attack by John Hartigan, the CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News Limited, labels bloggers and alternative media outlets as “political extremists”. Hartigan implies that bloggers should be jailed as they are in oppressive police states like China and Burma. In a speech to the National Press Club, Hartigan savagely dismissed blogs as, “Something [...]
Comic Artist Detained For Script Containing 9/11 Type Scenarios
Slashdot.org Comics writer Mark Sable was detained by security at Los Angeles International Airport because he was carrying a script for a new issue of his comic miniseries, Unthinkable. Unthinkable follows members of a government think tank that was tasked with coming up with 9/11-type “unthinkable” terrorist scenarios that now are coming true. Sable [...]
Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges
When Obama first unveiled his “preventive detention” policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that — as he put it – “my Administration will work with Congress to develop an appropriate legal regime.” But now, relying exclusively on three Obama officials speaking behind a veil of anonymity, Peter Finn and Dafner [...]
The Logan Act
fas.org Conducting Foreign Relations The Logan Act, codified at 18 U.S.C. § 953, states: Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, in relation to [...]
National Guard to Conduct Gun Confiscation Drills in Small Iowa Town
The Carroll National Guard will conduct Gun Confiscation Drills from April 2-5, 2009 in the 10 mile stretch between Carroll, IA to Arcadia, IA. According to Sgt. Mike Kots, readiness NCO for Alpha Company the drill will culminate in the apprehension of a suspected arms dealer. However, Sgt. Kots then goes on to explain “One [...]
WA HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 4009 Affirming 9th/10th Amendments Is Now Dead
“There are many who want to know the status of HJM 4009. This bill was assigned to the State Government and Tribal Affairs Committee. As is the case in all committees, the Chair of each committee decides if a bill assigned to it will receive a hearing or not.I have been informed that the Chair [...]
Washington State Introduces Legislation Affirming The Constitution
Washington State Sponsors: Representatives Shea, Klippert, Condotta, Kretz, Anderson, McCune, Kristiansen Contact your Rep to support this bill. GeorgeWashingtonBlog.com The legislatures of Washington and New Hampshire have just introduced bills declaring that they will not submit to the Unites States Government if the federal government acts unconstitutionally. For example, the New Hampshire legislation would provide [...]
Binding US Law Requires Prosecutions for Those Who Authorize Torture
by Glenn Greenwald It seems fairly easy — even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law — to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises: Associated Press, April 11, 2008: Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on [...]
Obama calls for `new declaration of independence’
Sify.com US President-elect Barack Obama set the tone for his historic presidency with a call to Americans to take up anew the principles of the nation’s founders with “a new declaration of independence.” “Only a handful of times in our history has a generation been confronted with challenges so vast,” Obama said on Saturday on [...]
Marines Admit “Security Force” To Operate Inside U.S.
Paul Joseph Watson | PrisonPlanet.com Following Northcom’s denial that U.S. Army combat teams would be used to deal with “civil unrest” after the announcement that thousands of active duty military personnel were being moved inside the United States, an Army.com report now concedes that more than 400 Marines assigned to one unit includes a “security force” [...]
WeAreChangeLA questions LAPD Chief William Bratton about mercenaries and Jerome Hauer
On December 11, 2008, WeAreChangeLAs Jeremy Rothe-Kushel and Bruno Bruhwiler were on hand to cover an event with William Bratton, the Chief of the LAPD. Bratton was at a Townhall LA event in West Los Angeles to drum up support for using funds promised to hire more LAPD officers.
Globalist Constitutional Convention Dealt a Defeat in Ohio
The global elite will not rest until they have undermined the last bastion that stands in their way as they attempt to dominate and subjugate of the once great republic of the United States — the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Over the years — but especially since September 11, 2001, and the creation [...]
NY Times: Judge Orders Five Detainees Freed From Guantánamo
William Glaberson | NYTimes.com A federal judge issued the Bush administration a sharp setback on Thursday, ruling that five Algerian men have been held unlawfully at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp for nearly seven years and ordering their release. It was the first hearing on the government’s evidence for holding detainees at Guantánamo. The judge, Richard J. Leon [...]
Obama: “The first thing I will do as President…”
@3:58″…The first thing I will do, when I am President, is to call in my Attorney General. Uh, and have he or she review every executive order, to determine which of those have undermined civil liberties, which are unconstitutional and I will reverse those with a stroke of a pen…” Hope?
Are You Living in the Constitution Free Zone?
ACLU.org Washington Estimated state population (2007): 6,468,424 Estimated border population (2007): 6,076,268 Percentage of population in Constitution-Free Zone: 93.94% Using data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau, the ACLU has determined that nearly 2/3 of the entire US population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders. The government [...]
